blackmarket

join the fight for survival.

about blackmarket

blackmarket invites you into a dark underworld of unlicensed street selling and entrepreneurial trading.

blackmarket is a participatory artwork situated on the streets of a city at night. a locative media app based work installed on pvi’s smart-phones, the work is highly immersive, audio driven and perversely fun. the world of the work is informed by the key philosophies of the occupy movement and recent financial bankruptcies in europe and iceland. blackmarket presents us with a global economic collapse that’s just around the corner with players charged with the task of surviving it.

audience members, are instructed to bring 5 items with which to trade. They will be hustling with shadowy figures down darkened alleyways, arranging rendezvous points and peddling their wares in order to get what they think they will need to cope with the impending disaster. audiences are joined on the streets by pvi traders who are equipped with their own services and encourage audience members to let go of what they don’t really need in exchange for experiences to equip them for survival once the economic clusterfcuk hits. from psychological coping mechanisms to physical training, urban survival skills to weaponising garbage, our blackmarketeers are ready and willing to meet all needs.

developed in consultation with economists, doomsday preppers and survivalists, blackmarket presupposes that our current economic structure has failed, that the money in your wallet no longer has value. what are the skills you might need? what are the services you can provide?

what are your chances of survival?

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testimonials

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rad, incredible, educational

blackmarket was one of the most rad, incredible, educational, exhilarating adventures of my lifetime… an original and unique concept executed masterfully. 5 sense star commendation for this creative endeavour!

nancy dolltweet after blackmarket // sydney may 2015

pvi collective:

truly at the forefront of socially and technologically engaged performance in australia

blackmarket readerperformance space // sydney, may 2015

the front-end production work that has gone into blackmarket is impressively complex,

with the result that the multitude of scenarios are clearly explained and mapped out for the participant

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pvi collective ltd is supported by the western australian government through the department of local government, sport and cultural industries and the australian government through the australia council, its arts funding and advisory body. pvi is supported by the western australian capacity building program through the sidney myer fund, minderoo foundation and the spinifex trust. | pvi collective acknowledges the whadjuk people of the noongar nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and play on in perth, western australia. muchos respect to elders past and present. we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.